Brian,
Have u thought about starting a wikki page or something on nuonce.net
where people could submit hardware details of stuff they know works
with your CD?
Andy
On 10/24/06, Jes Kasper Klittum <jes (at mark) enavn.com> wrote:
> > I would appreciate more help from the community. I am one person. Daily
> > I get 10 pieces of email asking why it doesn't work on their hardware.
> > I tell them this. I am but 1 person working 2 jobs. I have very
> > limited hardware to do any testing on. I do not own any real SCSI hard
> > drives. I do not own any RAID hardware cards. I can not give you ideas
> > on how to fix a problem that I have never experienced. So, I can, and I
> > will only do so much, ya know?
>
> I never asked you to solve the problem - I just asked you to tell me how
> to put together a new installer based on a new CentOS installer, that I
> knew detected the hard drives. I never got a hint about this, but okay -
> I did figure it out by myself eventually, but would have been very glad
> to get some hints.
> >
> > Please understand if I do not respond to you (or anyone else reading
> > this). On an average, I get 20-40 emails daily of people looking for
> > free help. If it is easy, I try to help, if it isn't, I charge for my
> > service. If I can't do it, I tell them that.
>
> That is okay - but we actually did ask you to do it for us. We told you
> that we would send you the hardware and pay you to get it working, but
> did not get a reply to this? Maybe the mail was dropped in your
> spamfilter? I noticed you has *spam* in the subject of the mail you sent
> to the list.
>
> >
> > Plus, I try to visit my own support Forums as much as I can.
>
> Great - but where do I find your forums? I could not find the link on
> your page?
> >
> > Possibly. The images are from 4.2. I know with 4.4 they have separate
> > i586 & i686 loaders, so I have to be careful.
>
> Yes, that is very likely. The images from 4.2 may not know about this,
> very new, hardware. Is it very difficult for you to update the images?
> It went very well for me.
>
> > And btw, the problems are generally related to Kickstart files. They
> > obviously do not scan for much hardware. I am not sure why though
>
> The scan is not done by the kickstart image - it is done by the kernel
> running on the iso. This is proven by the fact, that your very kickstart
> files now work without issues on my hardware after I updated the
> isolinux and stage2.img - the same kickstart images that did not work
> before.
>
> I hope that we, together, can improve the great work that you have done.
>
> Jes
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